Web Design
Website is a collection of one or more pages filled with useful information on a specific topic or subject or about your business. In a website a few or many pages are created that in turn make up a website. A web page may contain information on a topic or sub topics. The content on the pages should be relevant to the topic that provide useful information to the visitors. The website should be user friendly, search engine friendly, with a simple user interface and navigation controls. The appearance and style of the website should be professional. The text, graphics, navigation should be consistent throughout the website. The website should be easy to find on popular search engines. There should not be any broken links. Check out the following important points when you plan for web design and development of your website
- Specify a reason for your website
- Know your audience locally and globally
- Determine user requirements what they may want from your website
- What is your requirement - a Intranet or Internet website?
- Set measurable goals for your website
- Look at the current market and analyze other websites, to decide what works best for you
- Check out your competition how their website is doing
- Know your limits and constraints for the website
- Know current and future requirements for your website
- Know your web server, operating system, software, configuration and capacities
- Know skill requirements for the development
- Project management for the development work and execution of your website
- Usability of your website
- Visual design and graphic elements
- Content management
- Website Programming
- Plan
- Determine website content what to include
- Assemble team who will develop the website - web designer, developer, programmer, tester, software engineer, webmaster etc.
- Continuity and consistency, Navigation structure and links
- Present your message efficiently and effectively to your audience
- Keep user informed about error messages in case of any error occurs
- Benchmark and quality testing
- Tracking usage
All required elements for a website when put together will result into a great website that has good appearance, aesthetic, easy navigation, consistency in design, flow and style, Content rich pages, user and search engine friendly.
